Key-holder



(No Model.)

0. E. VAN NORMAN. KEY HOLDER.

N0.'409,265. Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

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UNITED STATES aTnivT FFICE.

CHARLES E. VAN NORMAN, OF XVALTIIAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

KEY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,255, dated August20, 1889.

Application filed January 24, 1889. Serial No. 297,341-- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. VAN Non- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of \Valtham, in the county of Middlesex and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inKeyllolders, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanyin drawings,is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in key-holders; and it is carriedout as follows, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, whereinFigure 1 represents a detail perspective view of the improved key-holderand Fig. 2 represents it in use on a chain having keys suspendedthereon.

Similar letters refer to similar parts whereever they occur on thedifferent parts of the drawings.

The improved key-holder is preferably made of bent wire, and has in itslower end a loop or eye a adapted to be connected permanently to one endof the chain Z), on which the keys 0 are located. Above or near the loopor eye a the wire is bent in the form of a laterally-proj eeting loopenlargement or cross-bar a, which serves as a means for preventing thekeys from dropping off the chain 1) when the other end of the latter istemporarily det ied from the key-holder while keys are being removedfrom or placed on the said chain. One end of the eye a extends upward inthe form of aspringhook, clasp, or bail a, the bend of which serves forconnecting to it one end of the chain 7), as shown, and the free end ofsaid hook is adapted, preferably, to lie in contact with the crossbar orlateral extension at with a proper amount of yielding spring-pressure,so as to prevent the chain end from being detached from the bail or hooka except when manipulated by the operator for such purpose.

\Vhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is

The key-holder consisting of chain 1), the locking device, as described,having an eye a attached to one end of said chain, a crossbar or lateralextension a, and a spring bail or hook a", adapted to be locked to theopposite end of the said chain, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 22d day of January, A. D.1889.

CHARLES E. VAN NORMAN. lVitnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, JosEPH H. Porn.

